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[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can have .0 as a host. 10.0.1.0/23 is a perfectly valid host, same with 10.0.0.255/23

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Nah, apparently it's completely valid to end IPv6 addresses with a 0. And I haven't done much research, but it seems IPv6 really doesn't have network addresses the way IPv4 does.

Also you can ping them and they reply.